Thought Content Descriptors

Question 1

false belief that is firmly maintained even though it is not shared by others and is contradicted by social reality

Answer 1

Delusion

Question 2

belief that one is favored by a higher being or is an instrument of that being

Answer 2

Religious delusion

Question 3

Belief that one’s body or parts of oen’s body are diseased or disorted

Answer 3

Somatic delusion

Question 4

Belief that one possesses greatness or special powers

Answer 4

Gradniose delusion

Question 5

Excessive or irrational suspicion and distrust of others, characterized by systematized delusions that others are “out to get them” or spying on them

Answer 5

Paranoid delusion

Question 6

Belief that one’s thoughts are being aired to the outside world

Answer 6

Thought broadcasting

Question 7

belief that thoughts are being placed into one’s mind by outside people or influences

Answer 7

Thought insertion

Question 8

the feeling of having lost self-identity and that things around the person are different, strange, or unreal

Answer 8

Depersonalization

Question 9

somatic overconcern with and morbid attention to details of body functioning

Answer 9

Hypochondriasis

Question 10

Incorrect interpretation of casual incidents and external events as having direct personal reference

Answer 10

Ideas of reference

Question 11

beleif that thinking equates with doing, characterized by lack of realistic relationship between cause and effect

Answer 11

Magical Thinking

Question 12

thoughts of nonexistence and hopelessness

Answer 12

Nihilistic ideas

Question 13

an idea, emotion, or impulse that repetiviely and insistently forces itself into consciousness, although it is unwelcome

Answer 13

Obsession

Question 14

a morbid fear associated with extreme anxiety

Answer 14

Phobia